Finally! Good news for musicians on Microsoft Windows! 

Thanks for the video recap. :) The delay in getting the new MIDI Services into Windows isn't Arm, it's the backwards compatibility (WinMM, primarily) and all the testing around that. It's taking us a while to make sure we don't break anything. We'd definitely like people to try out the Insider builds, especially because there are SO many MIDI interfaces and devices out there. For Arm64 audio interface drivers - I had the date incorrect for Steinberg. Steinberg has released their native drivers for Arm64 in preview this week alongside Cubase and Nuendo. We used a preview of it with the IXO22 at Snapdragon Summit - Focusrite is coming very soon. Pete Brown Microsoft

Cool. Now they just need to update the audio subsystem...from winxp ;-)

Lets all put pressure on plugin developers. We want clap format plugins on linux. To be forced to use windows or mac for music creation is rotten.

If the latency for live performance will skyrocket( meaning staying low and using cpu intensive plugins etc) i think this might finally be a viable option! Windows had alot that Mac doesnt and Mac had alot that Windows doesnt have, so its good to see those boundaries melt away ❤

Nice to see Windows on Arm getting some love. It has been the red headed stepchild of Microsoft's for years-supposedly the next big thing, but clearly a second rate citizen by Microsoft themselves. Once again MS sending mixed messages to developers/consumers. Didnt help up until X Elite came out they were peddling gussied up smartphone chipsets stuffed into laptop form factor for a premium price point.

0:00 Introduction 0:30 MIDI 2.0 - What & When? 3:34 Audio/MIDI support on Windows 11 with ARM processors

thanks for sharing I'm not touching these ARM laptops with their damned AI "memory" crap nope nope

Linux went through this and one of the things many of the developers said was ARM requires a complete rewrite of the audio sublayer. Linux then made Pipewire for x86 & ARM at the same time which is nice (basically a clone of Mac Core Audio with Linux specific features) Windows will end up with some janky ASIO over translation instead of just building a unified audio system. I think it will be 2027 before you see any major brands build drivers for Windows on ARM that is native to the system since it will be up to the companies (not microsoft) on how to build it and that is a ton of R&D costs and most likely it will run on translation in a wrapper not natively.

RU-vid algorhythm suggested me this vid, very good news! Playing VSTs live on a notebook I had to switch to the dark side of the Force (you khow who...) but I would be happy to get back to Windows. If it will be competitive: these are nice steps, but a multiclient audio engine is mandatory! With my current M1 macbookpro, I can play on my midi controller, mix my VSTs layers and listen to music at the same time without any issue. It's the perfect environment for a rock cover band keyboard player... And I use same laptop to record a small orchestra, play live and produce music on dozen of tracks on my DAW.

If win 11 wasn’t so intrusive I would be upgrading but probably won’t

Thx Jurgy ❤

Thanks for the heads-up! BTW, any plans on supporting Move in Bitwig and/or Reaper?

Multi-client MIDI drivers will be a godsend for hardware that uses librarian/editor software. I have spent too much money to work around the issue. But will DAW's still only be able to address one ASIO audio driver? I seem to remember no limitation on Apple. But on Windows, you pick one. So no mix & match of interfaces, unless they have the same driver.

ARM seems like the way to go. But, Apple Silicon has shown that some hardware are incompatible, like GPUs and there will be need for ARM based drivers for existing devices to work. I think that's where the challenge lies. It will be interesting to see deskops with PCIe. Will PCIe cards be supported natively?

The big question for me if midi 2.0 on will get rid of our midi jitter issues once and for all (especially on usb midi)

Thanks as always. For the ARM drivers, is it going to be a similar situation to Apple M1 where each plugin developer has to update their plugin backend to support and take advantage of the architecture? Or is the update handled only at the driver and DAW levels?

Great ! Only took 20 years to figure out what Apple does better

I always had good luck moss. The past few updates, I open the app and it does nothing. Catalina os. It's bumming me out.

This is good news if it does not render all older equipement and all 64 bit drivers unuseable and obsolete. Musicians hate big changes.

Only on ARM :(

who would develop midi drivers in c#? surely c++ is king

Microsoft is so slow when compared to Linux in adding this stuff.

Best of all Windows now sends screenshots of all your work to Redmond so they can sell your music for you, without even having to ask!

ARM is a rotten platform so is INTEL. A Virus synth had 100MHz processor and could function as 16 synths at the same time. My 12 core 1.8GHz cpu can mange that with a few extra plugins, I use Dune 3 and it is super optimized. 1 core 100MHz vs 12 core 1.8GHz, let that sink in... What is wrong with computer systems today? We been fooled all the way. An upgraded 2 core Amiga could beat any pc or mac out there today.

So i guess nothing will be done for win 10 now. There's no way in hell i'm going to win 11. New mac minis coming next month with the M4 chip so i'll replace the original m1 i bought and abandon windows forever.

meeeh windoz... i stopped using those. a synth should be a synth. a soundcard should be a soundcard. a midi controler is a midi controler. audio needs to go thru audio cables and not bs HDMIs and usbs... and windows should stop treating every device you hook up to it as a friggin soundcard . Everything else is just gaslighting yourself. Theres a reason good old hardware has its price. It just works. no drivers no bs updates to use functionality no subscriptions no bs. Simple. Thats why teenage engineering gear sells like hot cookies. Thats why people still buy behringer stuff - even if build quality used to be like shht (speaking of their mixer which i had)... Windows??? Yea i dont need that to make music. I was a happy camper on linux and some early ver of Bitwig. Worked like a charm back then. Never looked back.

With Recall being mandatory, you're gonna get your music stolen by AI anyways.